Category Historic

September 28, 2018

RIP: Sir Charles Kuen Kao – Fiber Optic Pioneer

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Historic Tag ARM, bandwidth, BBC, Belgium, Cable, China, development, Fiber, George Smith, hong kong, IBM, itt, Mobile, recognition, research, rip, shared, Sir Charles Kao, standard, stc, stl, subsea, switzerland, UK, usa, Willard Boyle

This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…

February 7, 2017

Building a Wireshark for CentOS 7

By John Dixon in Historic Tag CentOS, coding, development, gpg, How To?, HTTP, IBM, Internet, iot, Linux, lua, monitoring, mqtt, package, packets, repository, rpm, standard, tools, updated, WAN, Wireshark, yum

Update: If you're just keen on grabbing the latest Wireshark, check out the Wireshark on Centos TL;DR version. Or the new version 2.4.0 build documentation. So as part of some…

This one time, when I found two identical MAC addresses…

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Historic Tag acquisition, AT&T, Cable, change, Ethernet, OUI, PABX, packets, patch, plastic, power, router, servers, SMC, space, testing, Token-Ring, transition, Western Digital

So, this one time, I discovered two network cards with identical MAC addresses. During 1993, and a network transition from Token-Ring to 10-BaseT Ethernet, I had to deal with a…